[En-Nut-Discussion] arm port

Harald Kipp harald.kipp at egnite.de
Tue Nov 11 11:24:37 CET 2008


Rocendo Bracamontes del toro wrote:

> While debugging some interrupts I noticed that  the threads runs in
> Supervisor mode. I was expecting to see the threads in User mode and the
> kernel in Supervisor mode.
> 
> Any particular reason why the threads runs under Supervisor mode?

There's no such thing like a privileged kernel in Nut/OS. In fact the 
system calls are normal C functions, linked to the applications. The 
only special part is thread switching.


Harald


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